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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: The Eccentric Outlaw
Description: Charles E. Boles, otherwise known as ‘Black Bart’, was one of the Wild West’s most unlikely stagecoach robbers; being as he was a spiffy and quietly-spoken former teacher from Norfolk. But on 26th July, 1875 he made his name by robbing his first coach - without a gun.He targeted only Wells Fargo coaches, and never killed a passenger. As his crime career progressed, he made a habit of leaving behind little poems, signed ‘PO8’. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unpick the private investigation that led to his downfall; explain why he always...